St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-08

ton is presented to me it is not ques-
ton of salvation for my body am not
interested in the salvation of my body,
| do not care cent practically what be-
comes of my body
| AFTER AM DEAD;
you can do what you please with lt-put
every power of my nature and soul Is
interested in what becomes of my soul;
where it is to so. You might cremate
ng body and grind it up amid wheels;
you may do anything you please with
my body; | do not care what becomes
OF it, am perfectly Indifferent to tllat.
But :ly eternal soul, my immortal soul,
with its eternal interests and eternal
possibilities and its eternal capabilities
that swell and press and urge me For,
ward, these are the things that point me
beyond the environments of life, and
want to know and feel absolutely Ger
tain day by day that l have salvation
for my soul. And so all men in this
world have the same feeling. The,Qld
Greeks in their poetic fancy would tel
| you that after the environments OF TINS
earth were cast off, after we had died
and passed away from among our til-
man activities on this earth, that the
soul would float out upon some peaceful
beautiful isles that were just be
|
And soon the souls of all of us would
CRATE their keelS upon the golden shores,
isles of beauty and blesSedneSS, where
there would be nothing to disturb and
no contentious to arouse, and nothing
but joy and peace and happiness for
ever. They had their ideal of heaven,
and in their poetic fancy they gave it
form and substance in these beautiful
isles. Bacon located the new Atlantis
| III in IN q
of the wonderful scenes which might
there be found, and raised the imagina-
| tons of men on that, and sent many a
one OFF into speculation as to whether
there was not to be found somewhere
around this globe the reality OF that
| which is promised in the new heaven
and the new earth, where all the rela-
| lions of humanity would be perfect,
where all laws would be just, where all
things would be happily adapted to
make us rejoice evermOre and feel rest
full and
PEACEFUL AND COMMENTED.
But though this old globe has been
circumnavigated by the most skill
full mariners for generation after
generation, the shores of that
| new Atlantis has never gladdened the
the sight of anyone of them, nor never
will gladden. the sight of any mariner
in going around upon this terrestrial
sphere. They used to have an idea
that we could build a new Ethiopia on
this world somewhere; that men could
get together and by power of their hui
| man adjustment, could form commune
| ties where we could fix up our laws so
that they would be perfectly just, and
| fix all our social relations so as to be per-
fectly pure, fix all our governmental ar
engagements so that they would move
without friction and bear equally upon
all men. And with the old Greek idea
still dominant, said: I'VE will some
where around this globe establish new
Ethiopia where men. can go and be
free, happy and contented; pure and
But we know by experience as well
| as by . history and observation
around about us that it is impossible,
| with our poor, weak, fallible human ma
lures, our carnal desires rampant i'll u.s.
it is impossible to make any approach
even to the Eden of love, without having
the serpent and the temptation and the
fall. We must look out over the earth,
and look beyond all these scenes that
are temporal, that have the stamp of
decay upon them, and that we know on
the authority of the word of God are
soon to be dissolved and made fervent
heat. We must look out beyond these
for "a place of rest, for the place of sad
Walton for our immortal souls. Jesus
Christ says to me: '.Seek We first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and all things necessary TO me here and
necessary to me hereafter shall be added
to me" He was talking Just at this
particular time about the Gentiles, and
how they sought after =
THEIR TEMPORAL. WELFARE; ".
what thew SbOnlI LAT and what thew
should drink and wherewithall they
should be clothed, Jesus said to Them.
| do not pay any attention to what you
should eat and drink and wear, but he
said, Seek We first the Kingdom of God
and his righteousness for the salvation
of your soul and then God will add
these things unto YOU" In this country,
in this world, we fOndly believe that
America is the ideal of the best govern
| ment the world has ever seen. We say
| that here men have the right to life and
liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
we give them the largest individual lib
| erty and freedom, the highest guaran-
| tees of perfect security, and we give
them the largest opportunities for going
out, and pursuing happiness in all the
ways that their minds can conceive and
invent. And it is well nigh true that
| this is the best government; best
adjusted in all ways; best adapted
for the highest. happiness of the
uals, and families, and communi-
ties. 1t is so, and how many people
seek it from all parts of the world. How
| those, to whom the knowledge of the
truth of this liberty that we have here
in America, of the adjustments of our
laws of the rights that are guaranteed
to men, of their safety and immunities
from tyranny, harShneSs and oppression
| from arbitrary power, how the gospel
of glad tidings of this human liberty
| carries around the world has aroused
| the desires of men and women in all
| parts of the world, and how they are
| coming to this country by the thousands
and hundreds of thousands. Fifteen
| per cent. of our population to-day are
| foreign born. Twenty-Five per cent. of
| foreign origin come into this country.
Why? Because they are seeking that
which they have conceived is the best
| for them in their temporal affairs. Life
| is insecure in other governments, prop
erty is hard to obtain and high in price,
and is subject to
HEAVY ASSESSMENTS
and taxations. The pursuit of hap
| pinesS is limited by classes, and by class
| legislation, by commercial restrictions,
and by great many things which make
it impossible for these men struggling
with the desires of their great minds and
hearts and soulS-makes it impossible
! for them they know-to reach the high
est possibilities of their nature, and in
| order to reach them, and in order to
make it possible they come to a govern
ment, a land, civilization that prom
Uses them the largest liberty and the
highest possibilities of development;
! largest accaeatiOn of property and hap
| pincss. And i'll order to get here, what
sacrifices they make just for the sake of